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Articles by Ashling Bourke
The Conceptions About Mathematics and Its Teaching Held by Primary Pre-Service Teachers
1 Introduction The teaching of mathematics can be viewed as an exercise in problem-solving, wherein teachers must navigate a complex environment, supporting children who present with diverse conceptions and perspectives about mathematics. As many preservice teachers will have encountered traditional passive approaches to teaching mathematics when they were learners, they may not have experienced models of teaching approaches that successfully navigate this complexity.
What influences how you think about climate change?
Analysis: How we think about climate change is strongly influenced by our social and political identity. Recent flooding, in Ireland, as well as extreme temperatures in the US, Canada and Australia, may have more people thinking about climate change. While such weather events can have a temporary impact on our climate change attitudes, how we think about climate change is strongly influenced by our social and political identity.
Exploring well-being and ill-being in education: disciplinary insights and curriculum perspectives
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a significant increase in the explicit naming of well-being in educational policy and practice. However, there is a tendency for such naming to occur in a theoretical vacuum which can lead to an ambiguous and ill-defined application, and runs the risk of the construct being viewed purely as ‘happiness’ and negates the space for individual vulnerabilities and experiences of ill-being that are part of the human condition.
How to address the barriers to meaningful adolescent involvement in health research: A qualitative study
INTRODUCTION Over the past two decades, there has been an increased demand for adolescent involvement in health research (Clarke, 2015; Patton et al., 2016). Adolescent health and well-being are defined as “adolescents having the support, confidence, and resources to thrive in contexts of secure and healthy relationships, realising their full potential and rights” (Ross et al., 2020). Based on Ross et al.
A rapid review of guidelines on the involvement of adolescents in health research
1 INTRODUCTION Twenty-four percent of the world's population is comprised of adolescents aged 10–24 years.1 There has been a growing focus on research on adolescent health in the past two decades,2, 3 accompanied by an increased recognition of the importance of involving adolescents in research on adolescent health.3, 4 This is defined as ‘research that is done “with” or “by”’ young people, ‘not “to,” “about” or “for” them’.5, 6 The emphasis on adolescent involvement in health research in...
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